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i like to run my javascript through jshint and gjslint to lint my code for anything those tools pick up. sublime text editor is my favorite editor for javascript and the sublimelinter is an excellent package that will lint your code in real time.

the problem with sublimelinter is that it will only let you run one linter per language. this is problematic if you want to run two. the solution? it’s a little hacky and unfortunately isn’t very modular, but it can be done.

the linter you choose can be configured to run an external tool to lint your code. the results of the tool can be parsed via some regex magic and you can then parse the results into a format that sublimelinter understands.

since jshint and gjslint can be invoked as external tools, you can just write a wrapper shell script which will run both of these tools against your file, then check against some regex to pick up the results and feed it to sublime.

it’s a little messy and i suspect when the plugin upgrades itself, you’ll have to reapply these changes because you are mucking with the internals of sublimelinter, but having both static code tools run in real-time for me is worth it.

it’s not a lot of code, but it’s enough where it’s not for the faint of heart:
sublimelinter fork with diffs.

in the last few months, i’ve been transitioning front a LAMP developer to a primarily front end developer. it’s been an interesting and fun journey so far, but quite humbling as well.

it seems like there’s so much that i still just don’t know and i think that i need to start documenting the things that i hear about and how feelings about them.

so here’s my first note to myself to learn about: backbone.js, underscore.js, mustache.js, dust.js

also, it looks like it these tools might come in handy: prism, filedrop.

so what do i end up doing with my spare time? at work i’m making facebook apps. when i get home, i made a facebook app just for myself, just for the 365 project i’m working on. it’s still rough around the edges but it’s semi-working and taking a picture a day is quite the challenge.

i was watching modern family last night and phil was trying to make a special moment with his daughter. he went to great lengths to create a memory that only he and his daughter would have to look back upon and smile fondly.

it reminded me of a memory from my childhood when my dad took me to a niners game. i think it might be the only 49ers game we’ve ever gone to. i must have been around 8 years old. i remember being so excited the week before the game and i would talk about the game with great anticipation.

i would ask my dad how long we would go to the game and he would tell me that he didn’t know. the game could go into overtime and we might be there all night long! i would tell my mom that she shouldn’t stay up for us because we might not go home until the sun came up.

we went to the game, watched it, and had a blast. i remember my dad bought me a horn that i could blow to make noise at the game. i carried that horn with me everywhere i went for a week after that.

it’s such a great memory of a little boy excited to spend time with his dad at his football game. i had forgotten about it until i watched modern family last night, so thank you modern family for helping me relive a wonderful moment in my life.

tonight, kyden and i are going to go to the sharks game. he, too, has been so excited about it and has been motioning power play shark jaws and cheering go! sharks! go! around the house for the past several days. i never really thought about it as a moment that he and i can share (though i’m sure he’s far too young to really remember it later as an adult), but it certainly gives a different perspective to a night out like this.

I’ve been in training all this week and today I took a certification test to be a cloudera certified hadoop developer. I find it mildly amusing that the first professional certification I have ever gotten is in something whose primary user are java developers. I anticipate that most of my interactions with hadoop with primarily be using hadoop streaming for MapReduce tasks.

But yes, I am certified having written a full two, that’s right, count them, TWO MapReduce apps. What else can I call myself a pro in that I’ve only done twice? Laser tag?

i just recently got the ipad 2 and i’ve been torn about what to do for a case. for my iphone 4, it was important to me that the case be ultra-thin. i didn’t want to add additional bulk to the phone. eventually, i ended up with a switcheasy nude black case. this case is super thing, yet provides the protection that i want for my iphone.

when making the decision to get an ipad case, i was confronted with the same question: what is important to me for an ipad case? it turns out that what was important for me for the iphone is not what is important to me for the ipad.

so what did i want? i did not want the smart covers because the thought of spending upwards of $60 for just a cover with no back protection on the ipad was simply appalling. i did, however, want something that took advantage of the “smart” factor of the cover. i wanted something that when i opened up my ipad, it would make use of the magnets to turn on and off the ipad.

adding bulk to the ipad 2 was a concern of mine, but i also wanted something that would provide full front and back protection of the ipad 2 especially when it was not being used.

it was not terribly important to me that the ipad 2 case had an integrated stand in it. it was important that i would be able to charge the ipad 2 easily and that access to all of the ports were readily accessible.

but really, the biggest factor of the decision was that the case had to be beautiful.

with all of those things in mind, i ended up with the pad and quill octavo for ipad 2. there are a couple of competitors out there to this case that from the outside looks like a moleskine journal. what spoke to me about this particular case is that it does have an integrated magnet to use the smart features of the case.

for me it was a toss up between the dodocase and the octavo and the on/off feature with the magnet sealed the deal for me.

i’ve received the case and the quality of the case on first glance is pretty stunning. the specially carved speaker channel seems to amplify sound that goes through the ipad 2 speaker instead of muffling it.

i do have to admit that when i first installed the ipad 2 in the octavo, i was a bit disappointed with just how much bulk this case adds to the ipad 2. the ipad 2 is firmly seated in the case and there’s no chance that it will fall out of the case.

i realized that though heft matters, i’m not sure if i got a different case if i would use the ipad 2 differently. would i hold it differently because the overall weight is less? the truth of the matter is that the ipad 2 isn’t really a device that i can hold comfortably in 1 hand for a prolonged period like some of the other tablets in the market that are just much smaller and weighs much less. (i’m thinking the galaxy tab, for example)

workmanship on the octavo is pretty solid, my only complaint (and it is a nitpick) is that there is a knot in the wood border that holds the ipad 2 in the case.

because these are hand crafted cases, i would have thought that pad and quill would have paid more attention to these kinds of details. this is a premium $70 case, after all. it looks like a blemish when you look at the case from the outside and i think that i’m just disappointed that i just ended up getting a bad build. this is the only complaint i have from a cosmetic point of view.

outside from that, i love the case and highly recommend it to anyone.

of course after i mention a great find of mine, it breaks. pixelpipe is no longer correctly uploading to plixi for me. it looks like there’s some kind of API issue on their side. in the meantime, it means that uploading images just became difficult again.

plixi’s iphone app is nowhere to be found. i’m not sure what happened to it as it WAS available at some point some time ago… the only thing that is saving me is that plixi will also let you email images to a custom email address that will then upload it to your account. thank goodness. this solves my image uploading needs, but i really wished there was an integrated solution for status updates and image uploads. pixelpipe looked like it was the solution, but alas, that does not seem to be the case.

maybe it’s finally time to start writing that iphone app, after all…

i’ve been absent from the blog for quite some time now. most of it is just because i haven’t really felt the desire or need to blog. when i first started to blog, i was angst-ridden and needed a place to vent. eventually i got to a good place in my life and i started to blog about all the fun things that i was doing. and then somewhere along the way something happened. maybe it was the discovery of micro-blogging with twitter. maybe it was dealing with the learning curve of a new job. or maybe it was having a son.

in any event, i feel like what precious free time i do have, i generally want to spend it relaxing as much as i can by just doing nothing. it’s awful that it’s come to this because i want to say that it’s out of laziness, but really it’s more bourne out of the desire to not want to do anything. even watching tv sometimes is too much…well, let’s not get carried away here.

christi’s gone to texas for the week and kyden and i are fending for ourselves. it’s actually not that bad, kyden and i are hanging out and we are having a fabulous time. he tried eating some of my burrito tonight, but it was a little too spicy for him.

tonight’s big activity, once i finished up work, was to figure out how to correctly share images between my twitter, facebook, and some image sharing site. i thought that finding an app to do this would be really easy because you know…there should be an app for that.

it turns out that it’s a little bit harder than i expected. there are plenty of web sites that will do it, but few have iphone apps that will let you upload from one app and publish to multiple destinations. on top of that, i wanted to be able to update my twitter feed and facebook feeds with text messages. shozu was the first app that came to mind, but it really bothers me how they advertise their own service within your content.

pixelpipe does everything that i want it to do, but it’s not very intuitive to use at all. in fact, it’s very confusing…but very powerful. i think i have figured out how to update status messages in facebook and twitter and post to facebook (w/ thumbnail instead of via link) as well as adding a link in twitter using the original image (not a resized crappy image) all from one app. it’s has some great functionality, but really needs a redesigned user experience so people can figure out how to use it. that being said, kudos to the pixelpipe team for all of their points of integration with various social networking sites.

i’m surprised there aren’t more apps that work in this space, it sort of seems like an opportunity here for someone to come in, wrap together a beautiful UI, and really take this idea off. hmmmm…maybe that’s a project for me in the “spare time”.